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Text:Earth's fragile beauties we possess
Author:Robert Willis (b. 1947)
Tune:KINGSFOLD
Collector:John Alexander Fuller Maitland (1856-1936)
Harmonizer:Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

526. Earth's fragile beauties we possess

Text Information
First Line: Earth's fragile beauties we possess
Author: Robert Willis (b. 1947)
Meter: DCM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Church Year: Good Friday; Grief; Hope (7 more...)
Copyright: © Robert Willis. Used by permission.
Tune Information
Name: KINGSFOLD
Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Collector: John Alexander Fuller Maitland (1856-1936)
Meter: DCM
Key: e minor
Source: Melody from English County Songs 1893
Copyright: Harmonisation: From The English Hymnal, 1906, Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.



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